6:33 PM,
Mar. 1, 2013

Evan Lurie, a gallery owner, had served as a high-profile promoter and champion of Carmel's Arts & Design District.

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After a decade at the center of Carmel's emerging arts community, Evan Lurie suddenly found himself on the outside Friday.

A day after The Indianapolis Star first reported the former actor and current gallery owner's arrest in a Southside prostitution sting, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard -who recruited Lurie to promote the city's Arts & Design District - announced the city was cutting all ties with him.

Lurie's arrest on Feb. 22 came just as he was negotiating a new $60,000 contract with the city's redevelopment commission -negotiations which came to an end with news of his arrest, Brainard ...